Time to turn Storrow Drive into a pedestrian way

As someone who had to commute by car 5 days a week via Storrow en route to the North Shore, and now rides an escooter along it, I do see it both ways.

Maybe expand access to cabs and rideshares. The end does dump to rt 1, 93 and Logan Airport. That would be a major disruption.

Plus, what would we do without storrowings?

Rename "Storrow Drive" to "Pedestrian Way". Problem solved.

How can anyone even pretend to take this seriously? Sure, if we're building Boston from scratch, no one would want a highway blocking access to the Charles River. Back in the real world, however, this isn't the case. His argument about removing the Bowker Overpass is beyond absurd. He is aware that the majority of all the hospital staff in Fenway use the Bowker to get to the Mass Pike & I-93, right? How about that ambulances need an efficient route to these same hospitals, so people don't die in-transit. What about the thousands of people who travel to Fenway Park for each Sox game?

As someone who actually lives in the city, Storrow Drive is the only thing that allows quasi-efficient movement of traffic from east/west. For those living in Back Bay & Fenway, it's the only way to get to the airport and downtown quickly and by far the most efficient way to get to I-93, & Rt. 1. If we actually removed Storrow, it would simply cause gridlock on all the surface roads as trips that used to take 15 minutes, now take 45+ as you're forced to drive through downtown Boston.

Now, if we want to talk about reducing the number of cars commuting to Boston on a daily basis when they could take regional transit...let's do that! Let's start by adding tolls for NH residents who drive 70 miles A DAY on MA roads to get to Boston, yet we don't toll them a single dime. Meanwhile, someone driving in from Framingham has to pay $6/day in tolls to take the Pike.

We could also make all that tax free land between Kenmore Square and Packard's Corner along Commonwealth Avenue into a park. We could get rid of BU.

By getting rid of BU we could open up all the housing that they have bought up by and taken off of the market on Bay State Road and Audubon Circle and turn into housing for the working class, or in the case of Bay State Road, for the rich.

BU could move to some suburban office park because as we know, with the exception of the PILOT scholarships that BU gives out, no one from the City of Boston actually goes to BU, at least as an undergrad.

"Boston University - The Greatest School In Westchester and Long Island with a heaping dose of Rich Chinese and Gulf State Kids Majoring in Going To "School" in America".

PS - I'm surprised the author isn't in some play over at the Huntington. He has more silly drama in him with this proposal and the way he behaved with the Weymouth Compressor Station that he should be on a Telenovela.

....who threatened to have Father Leahy arrested last year when he and his Newton city councillor friend got the vapors over the BC football team celebrating postgame without masks.

https://twitter.com/nathanpboston/status/1310218518684721152?s=20

Robert Moses inadvertently proved that the more roads built the more traffic that will use those roads. An invariable pattern of the dog chasing its own tail. New bridge to off load traffic on older bridges. More traffic instead. The goal of lightening the load, reducing traffic jams, etc. never reached because there will always be more traffic to fill up the space.

It's as though in the US at least drivers abhor empty road space. Roads that are not backed up daily at both rush hours apparently should not, may not, can not exist in this universe. Seems to be a law of vehicular society. Wherever roads are built traffic will fill them up. Fascinating. Perhaps even gives another insight into the nature of how human society works, especially where cars are an integral component of the religion we could call Americanism. More important than the medium of transubstantiation, far more memorable and worthy than a Protestant remembrance of a god's final meal. Given so much devotion that any god would be jealous.

However, would the inverse of Robert Moses's discovery work? That is removing a road equalling a decrease in the traffic that uses the roads.

While that might be a bit upsetting to the worshippers of the vehicle, who like to use Storrow Drive (and loosing the various pictures Storrowing would be a loss for some), the gods GM, Toyota, Ford, etc. will survive loosing asphalt and the, lord forbid, maybe a few less cars bought and driven. But those gods are not going anywhere anytime soon. They will always have their worshippers.

No.

I don't know the logistics or feasibility of this (because I'm not a civil engineer), but I'm definitely open to projects like this. It would be really cool if we could do what Amsterdam did and start planning in a way that isn't car-centric.

{sits back with some popcorn and beer, giggling in the jungle called the suburbs}

Isn't the Back Bay part of Storrow Drive below water level? Would it turn into an adjacent river to the Charles if cars stopped using it? We could turn it into a fish farm or something water sports related.

How about we hear from experts in the department of urban planning and civil engineering?